Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2 = a joke ?

chaotic_uk · 9 Feb 2011 at 00:15

my brother wanted a new cooler for his phenom II 550 which did not sound like an hair dryer for £30 or under , so in the end he decided on the Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev2 thinking it would manage him as he does not overclock i installed it for him replacing the mx2 which is already on it with mx4 which i ordered from ocuk at the same time . with hwmonitor running in the background he started to test it running a few games (halflife2 + bioshock etc) , after around 10 min he decided to check on the temps he was getting and was supprised it was hitting 65c (stock fan etc hit 62c max) . so my question is where do artic cooling get the 160w worth of cooling from ? , to me that figure is a joke for a cooler which does not cost much less than my akasa venom . his case is the cm storm scout , specs below taken from the product page at ocuk . can he return it with not being happy with it ?

- Heatsink: 130L x 100W x 131H mm
- Fan: 120mm x 1
- Fan speed: 800 -1500 RPM (Controlled by PWM)
- Air flow: 35.7CFM / 60.7 m3/h
- Maximum Cooling Capacity: 160 Watts
- Unmatched cooling performance – 160 Watts
- Unique twin tower 102-fin heat sink design
- Effective heat dissipation via 4 double-sided heatpipes
- 1 ultra quiet 120mm PWM fan
- Patented fan holder eliminates the buzzing sounds
- Voltage regulators and north bridge cooling
- Pre-applied MX-2
- 6 Years Warranty

SeeknDestroy · 9 Feb 2011 at 00:28

It might be a mounting problem. Try double checking

chaotic_uk · 9 Feb 2011 at 00:31

reinstalled it 4 times and even running the fan at full speed changed nothing , i have also tested it on my 1090T which is hotter than his cpu . it hit 70c on my 1090T after 4 min of fc2 , my cpu never goes above 41c with the akasa venom with a push pull setup

OLDPHART · 9 Feb 2011 at 11:52

Hi, my two sons are using ACF 7 V1 on a , Q6600-3.2GHz / Q9550-3.1GHz, have just ran WPrime-1024m-stability test using the Q6600-3.2GHz which took about 9 minutes to complete and it keeps your cores at 100%. After about 4 minutes the core temps reached 49:48:54:54'c, just before the test finshed the temps reached 49:49@55:54'c. So mormal use gaming ,etc should just be in there fortys using MX2 and the Q6600 heatsink has never been off in three years.

Something is not right if after 9 minutes my Q6600 reached 49:49@55:54'c with WPrime 1024m stability test and your brothers reached 65'c gaming 10 minutes. How much paste are you applying did you clean the heatsink + CPU properly before applying it, are all the heatsink locking pins down properly , is the fan reaching max:rpm?. You can't a compare the AC7 V2 £19 to the Venom £35, the extra £16 gets you a far better CPU cooler.

chaotic_uk · 9 Feb 2011 at 19:23

but i was asking why they state upto 160w cooling when it cannot cope , i even put a viper fan infront of it at full speed (83 cfm) and it made little differance and yes the fan on the cooler was at full speed

chipps101 · 9 Feb 2011 at 20:25

chaotic_uk said:
but i was asking why they state upto 160w cooling when it cannot cope , i even put a viper fan infront of it at full speed (83 cfm) and it made little differance and yes the fan on the cooler was at full speed

to get people who don't do any research into the product before buying the cooler to buy it.

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2558&page=5

the £13 coolermaster hyper tx3 betters it

Adyx · 9 Feb 2011 at 20:32

I too was a little dissapointed when I bought one last year

for a budget cooler

chaotic_uk · 9 Feb 2011 at 21:47

i always thought that Arctic Cooling made decent stuff , i was proven incorrect this time

iBSOD · 9 Feb 2011 at 21:58

For £30 you could have got a Freezer 13. But I bought 2 (both from here) and they both came with a broken fan. Dissapointment Arctic Cooling, dissapointment.

AndyOcUK · 9 Feb 2011 at 22:28

chipps101 said:
to get people who don't do any research into the product before buying the cooler to buy it.

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2558&page=5

the £13 coolermaster hyper tx3 betters it

That review is of a freezer 13 m8.

The OP is talking about the freezer Xtreme.

I'd say its faulty to be honest.

The freezer 7 or freezer 13 is better but the temps should definitely better the stock cooler if it's been fitted correctly.

chaotic_uk · 9 Feb 2011 at 22:31

AndyOcUK said:
That review is of a freezer 13 m8.

The OP is talking about the freezer Xtreme.

I'd say its faulty to be honest.

The freezer 7 or freezer 13 is better but the temps should definitely better the stock cooler if it's been fitted correctly.

yes it was fitted correctly as i made sure it was , although it was a pain to get the clips on the amd fittings as my hands seemed to big lol . when i tested the cooler at max speed on my mobo it reached a max speed of 1308 rpm , it says max fan speed should be 1500rpm

chipps101 · 9 Feb 2011 at 22:37

AndyOcUK said:
That review is of a freezer 13 m8.

The OP is talking about the freezer Xtreme.

I'd say its faulty to be honest.

The freezer 7 or freezer 13 is better but the temps should definitely better the stock cooler if it's been fitted correctly.

yeah but the freezer 13 is better than the extreme and even that isn't very good according to any review i have seen

arctic cooling are living on good memories from the original freezer 7 and freezer 64 which were top budget coolers but others have caught and surpassed arctic cooling in the budget sector now.